Shakespeare adaptation
Reworked Elizabethan drama
A Shakespeare adaptation is a creative work that reimagines or reinterprets a play by William Shakespeare in a new form, medium, or setting.
This includes film versions, modernized stage productions, novels retelling the plots, musicals, and works that transplant the stories to different eras or cultures: West Side Story is a Shakespeare adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, The Lion King draws heavily from Hamlet.
Adaptations range from faithful renderings to loose interpretations that retain only basic plot elements or themes.
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- to be or not to beExistential dilemma phrased dramatically
- RomeoArdent male lover
- JulietFemale name, phonetic J
- star-crossed loversCouple doomed by destiny
Baz Luhrmann · Kenneth Branagh · Globe · iambic · sonnet · tragedy · Macbeth · Othello · soliloquy · bard · Elizabethan · Globe Theatre · stage · costume · reimagining · modernization · West Side Story · She's the Man
- stage productionsplay, musical, dress rehearsal, stage play, stage show
- adaptationsdramatization, live action remake, reimagining, retelling, radio drama
- stage adaptationsBroadway revival, classic revival
Shakespeare adaptationoriginal screenplay
Film story not adapted
original composition · primary source · source material · ur-text
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